Thom Henderson, SAIL High School music teacher, loves a good banjo joke, and he gives you extra credit if you laugh. “Banjos are showing up in places we don’t expect,” Henderson says while unzipping ...

Missy Raines found her instrumental voice a long time ago. She was already a bluegrass fan, and slowly developing some skills on piano and guitar, when her father lugged a double bass to the family’s ...

The famed Santa Ynez Valley Grange Hall in downtown Los Olivos returns from an eleven-month hiatus with a special Americana/Bluegrass concert by Peter Feldmann and the Very Lonesome Boys Trio. The ...

It seems like only yesterday I was reviewing a batch of bluegrass-related CDs. (Actually, it was a whole two weeks ago.) But the stack remains, the Beyond Bluegrass Festival of Acoustic Music ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The 43rd annual RockyGrass festival at Planet Bluegrass in Lyons, Colorado, provided everything from traditional bluegrass to newer style acoustic music ...

How does a vagabond go home? Because Bela Fleck plays the five-string banjo, bluegrass purists will swear that his only true home can be with them in their little cabin homes on the hill. And if they ...

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Tim O’Brien won song of the year and Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder earned instrumental group of the year for the eighth straight time at the International Bluegrass Music Awards Thursday. O’Brien ...

Bluegrass is inherently collaborative. Rooted in folk music, the genre relies on standards that have been covered countless times over the years. It makes sense that some of the best bluegrass albums ...